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With a little over a week to go before the state’s primary elections, Mount Olive native Ron Herring has been named as the director of election security and enforcement for the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), effective immediately.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 @ 12:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At their meeting on Wednesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) voted unanimously to hold a public comment period and meeting on proposed permanent rules for non-citizen list maintenance.
Published: Sunday, December 21st, 2025 @ 11:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“We need to fix that, and we need to fix that not tomorrow, we need to fix that yesterday,” Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort, on fixing the issues with the NCDMV.
Published: Saturday, November 1st, 2025 @ 6:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Election Board held a webinar Wednesday for the media to discuss the changes with the new photo ID requirement when voting.
Published: Saturday, February 17th, 2024 @ 3:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two democratically aligned advocacy organizations recently sent a letter to the election boards in ten states, including North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Republicans voted on Tuesday to override Democrat Governor Roy Cooper’s vetoes of two election bills that Republicans say will increase election integrity and Cooper claims are a “threat” to democracy.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 10:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina may soon have a new political party, but not if the elections board chair can stop it.
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 8:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Observers Are Already an Established Part of the Election Process
Published: Monday, September 18th, 2023 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. State Board of Elections is asking a federal court to dismiss a Republican attorney's lawsuit challenging Democratic Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman's re-election bid.
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 12:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Elections voted along party lines at their board meeting Thursday to reject a request from the NCGOP to have county boards of elections compare absentee ballot signatures with those that they have on file.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 9th Congressional District race of 2018 has made North Carolina ground zero for understanding ballot trafficking
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heading into the 2022 mid-term elections, the N.C. Republican Party will have continuity and unity surrounding its leadership.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 2:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The way it ought to be
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Georgia election officials have opened up an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s January phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump urged him to “find” votes so he could overturn the result of the state’s presidential election.
Published: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 @ 12:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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The ballots have been counted. Twice. Some will be counted again. Maybe all of them.
Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2020 @ 10:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Justice Paul Newby has secured a majority of votes to become the next chief justice of the state of North Carolina now that all 100 counties have officially completed their canvass of the 2020 election and have certified the results.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 6:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Board's lack of transparency has inflated the number of outstanding ballots.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the witness requirement for South Carolina’s absentee ballots.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 9:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Yesterday, Federal District Judge Osteen wrote a blistering rebuke of Attorney General Josh Stein and the Cooper Appointed State Board of Elections leadership attempt to misappropriate his order.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 1:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, I wrote how it was incredible that the State Board of Elections (SBE) appointed SBE Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell to negotiate a settlement to a lawsuit on absentee ballots and other election rules
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 12:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Republican Board Members Resigned In Protest Over The Unethical Actions Taken By Governor Cooper’s Cronies And Attorney General Stein’s Manipulative Tactics
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 4:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A settlement in an election lawsuit strips absentee ballot protections, opening the door for election fraud, one election expert says.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 4:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As long as coronavirus casts its pall over society–who knows how long that will be–the call for national voting by mail will no doubt increase.
Published: Monday, April 20th, 2020 @ 3:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday, Dec. 18 he would veto a bill returning the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement to separate agencies over concerns about a provision related to campaign finance investigations
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 11:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2018 ballot was loaded with constitutional amendments. Six, to be exact. Four will become part of the state constitution, but the General Assembly must pass enabling legislation for one, "Requires a photo ID to vote in person."
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2018 @ 9:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a rare show of unity, the state elections board unanimously agreed during a Sept. 7 teleconference to challenge federal subpoenas of millions of voter records
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2018 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With an election deadline looming, Republican legislative leaders are calling a special legislative session Friday, Aug. 24, to rewrite two constitutional amendments a three-judge Superior Court panel removed from the Nov. 6 general election ballot
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 @ 11:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement approved appeals by two Republican primary candidates, reversing decisions by Clay and Mecklenburg county elections boards that had disqualified the candidates from running
Published: Friday, April 6th, 2018 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What if the governor broke campaign finance laws but no state election board was there to rule
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) released the following statement on Hillary Clinton's Charlotte visit.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 5:25 am
By: Russell Allen
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Today Hillary Clinton's failing campaign stuck a finger in the eye of the people of North Carolina by seeking to overturn bipartisan compromises passed by local and state election board members in regards to North Carolina's already extremely accessible early voting plans.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 11:43 pm
By: Russell Allen
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